Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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